skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bit of a tangent, but..

Google has been going down hill for many years but since the December update a few weeks ago it has genuinely become atrocious.

In their quest to combat AI slop (good idea), they've gone and made domain authority so much more important than the content, that now when you search for A B C, you get 20 pages from very "authoritive" sites that are about A, are slighyly about B and don't even mention C. This is despite plenty of great pages about A B C existing and serving the content we're looking for - we just never get to see them because the places they're hosted on aren't "authoritive" enough. Before, you'd get 5 pages, 1 of which likely had what you were looking for, and maybe 1-2 were AI slop. Now zero of them are what you're looking for, but at least we no longer have the (generally very obvious) slop? Brilliant improvement for the users..

The reason behind this is pretty obvious: most AI slop that had been ranking well likely had 0 ad spend, meanwhile the "authoritive" sites tend to have high ad spend. Ads was seeing numbers go down and unhappy customers, and they run the company.
Maybe some people just aren't smart enough to understand quantum tunnelling and band gaps, and there's no real better analogy. And even if you do kind of get these, the bad analogies let you remember the standard behaviour so you can reason about what the micro details are.
> There was a study comparing Kaiser Permanente with the UK's National Health Service (NHS) that found Kaiser achieved better performance at roughly the same cost.

Linky?
Teenagers smoke for social reasons. It's very rare to see adults picking up smoking. Also, I'm not sure how many cigarettes you need to smoke before you get a good feeling out of it, but probably quite a lot.

Eventually, nicotine relieves the discomfort of addiction, which is what people conflate with pleasure.
Not OP, but

> What is that based on?

This is based on the fact that we have finite resources. Any resources that go to housing drug addicts could have been used for something else. There is a real opportunity cost there.

> Also, why are people with a drug problem less deserving than people with housing problems.

There are a few issues with housing drug addicts:

1. Understand, these people aren't just run-of-the-mill addicts. They are so addicted to drugs that they'll live in unimaginably horrid conditions to support their addiction. Any housing they receive will be destroyed and made uninhabitable.

2. Housing them makes the system more miserable and undesirable for everyone else. If you're a parent with children and you're facing homelessness, are you really going to use a resource where close contact with heavy drug addicts is possible?

> Finally, what I understand from experts is that the first step to helping people with drug problems is to get them stable housing.

That's actually the second step. The first step is getting the addict to want to quit drugs. Many addicts don't want to stop using, and giving those people housing is not going to be an effective way to combat their addiction if they aren't first interested stopping their addictive behavior.
Related : Corey Doctrow's article (again) about how he doesn't trust Bluesky enough to move there from mastodon. Especially Bluesky's promise to allow users to migrate to another host in the fediverse.

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-11-02...

Older article : https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get...
It’s already exactly the same problem.

@zuck.bsky.app

and

@zuck.meta.com

are two different accounts.

The only “problem” bsky solves is choosing a server. But if ATProto becomes widely used, the problem will appear as in Mastodon today. The only way to avoid it is for bsky to never become really decentralised. So yet another VC-backed social media company.
Historical note: Stalin and Hitler agreed to start WW2 by invading Poland in September 1939.

So Stalin may have played a part in ending WW2, but don't forget his part in starting it.
I don’t know about timemachine but I have some anecdotal experience with Dropbox and ransomware. Essentially one person’s computer was infected which encrypted all the files for everyone in Dropbox. Because Dropbox had versioning on the files I was able to restore all the files back to the point before they were encrypted after removing and wiping the infected machines.

So if timemachine has versioning then maybe then you probably have some options, I’m not sure I’d call this being “safe” from ransomware.
>Vero powers don't exist anymore on almost anything

that is blatantly false
Educate humans (not possible because they have to want to learn). Abolish Citizens United. Stop funding insurance. Put the insurance money to healthcare for all.
It should have a zero chance of generating different output if the temperature is set to zero as in TFA. LLMs are not stochastic algorithms unless you add entropy yourself. Of course most people just use ChatGPT with its default settings and know nothing about the specifics.

The point is, though – somehow the model has memorized these passages, in a way that allows reliable reproduction. No doubt in a super amorphous and diffuse way, as minute adjustments to the nth sigbits of myriads of floating-point numbers, but it cannot be denied that it absolutely has encoded the strings in some manner. Or otherwise you have to accept that humans can't memorize things either. Indeed given how much our memory works by association, and how it's considerably more difficult to recount some memorized sequence from an arbitrary starting point, it's easy to argue that in some relevant way human brains are next-token predictors too.
The Jews had just suffered a genocide, and were not wanted anywhere. There was literally no where for them to go, except the one place that had a thriving Jewish settlement on it for the past 50 years (and a deep connection from long before).

I think the history of Israel/Palestine is complicated, and everyone has some blame for the lack of current day peace, but let's be clear that the majority of Jews who became Israelis were not some conquering colonizers - they were the weakest refugees in the world, who had just seen 90% of their family killed, and had nowhere else to go.
Even worse, they don't ban the users sending death threats and other threats of extreme violence - as Jesse Singal discusses in this article:

https://www.thefp.com/p/jesse-singal-bluesky-has-a-death-thr...
Interesting, I've not heard of this one before. Most of the emulation community has settled on 'Winlator' as the main android windows emu of choice. Before this it was Exagear, but winlator is easier to get started with. Another route is using proof termux with a DE like xfce and connecting with X but not sure how good this setup is for pure gaming performance, but may be a good option for Dev work.
What I'd love it's either a public Web Rendering Proxy or Browservice.
The EU has certainly its issues, no doubt about it. They need to be pointed out and addressed for sure. We are not in disagreement there.

But the flat out denial that EU is in principle a democratic system is just a too simplistic view. It tends to be mostly touted by those populists who ultimately would like to see an authocratic state with themselves in charge.
What X gets mocked for is that the feature of being "verified" by Twitter was worth paying for. But X turned the "blue tick" into "this person has paid" which totally removed any value for the blue tick.

It was yet another self-own, along with things like getting promoted on the feed.

X could have made money by selling features (eg tweetdeck) and other useful things, but they didnt.

Of course, then politcally it became a "this person is a MAGA person" so Musk had to start handing out "free" blue ticks to big accounts to avoid that appearance. To the point that people were putting in their name "didn't pay for blue"
Here's some advice I've been given by maths professors that I've put into practise. This stuff really works.

-- Make sure you can do it cold, as in make sure you can do things without looking at notes, or looking at wherever you learned it from. For example, say I give you a calculus problem, you should be able to solve it without any outside help, just you, some paper and a pen. No notes, no Google, nothing else. If you can't, then you need to study more and do more problems.

-- Build a routine. Make sure you study whatever it is you want to study every day at the same time and you'll find yourself wanting to do it after a habit is built. And if you miss a session, for whatever reason, you'll feel quite bad about it, and want to try extra hard in the next session because you know you're "behind schedule".

-- Actively recall whatever you've learnt. You can do this by quizzing yourself, or by using flashcards/anki. This is one of the best ways to retain info.

-- Don't stress or get angry. You'll just stop the learning process. If you find yourself stressed, or angry, take a break. Remain calm, happy and curious.

You can do it. I believe in you. Start today.
a quick look leaves me with the question:

what exactly is being tokenized? RDS, OWL, Neo4j, ...?

how is the knowledge graph serialized?
A highly reliable and groundbreaking custom web app has a bigger impact on your business progress. It simply determines your goal and helps you take corrective steps toward it. Skeptical if custom web application development suits your enterprise? You can learn its type and process from the link below.
Would be interesting to ask the author for a review of NOSTR afterwards.

At NOSTR the account functions without servers, you get private keys that certify your messages as yours no matter where or when you post them.

From that perspective there isn't a private castle since you can send your messages to any of the several hundred relays existing today. It isn't VC funded but doesn't really cater to woke people and there isn't moderation of any kind.

You follow what you want to read, you can't even block others from writing on your texts. At most you can only ignore their writings.
Agreed that AI hasn't replaced jobs but i think that AI driven hiring tools have shifted the landscape.
Yes, depth of focus will be larger, as signified by the larger f-number.
Why is this, though? Are they wasting the money? Or are their discoveries instantly disseminated to their competitors? Or are the open source models just currently sponsored by rich people?
All the UK high street banks I worked with were running on IBM mainframes (or UNIX in one case) rather than AS400. The only bank I have come across running on an AS400 was a small one in Luxembourg that serviced the mafia.
Well it depends on what you mean by pro-Palestine. One could similarly ask what's the difference between being pro-Israel and being pro-peace.

As some people use the term, it means the dissolution of Israel. As others use it, it means being in favor of a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine for a two state solution.

I think if you ask most Israelis (including me), they'll tell you that it's an unfortunate reality that most Palestinians themselves don't actually want peace - they want Israel gone. Many people who call themselves pro-Palestinian mean that they want whatever Palestinians want, which includes the dissolution of Israel.

Personally, I think being pro-Israel or pro-Palestine should both be the same as being pro-peace, because the only think that will ensure a good future for both peoples will be having peace between them.
We are building something similar and more intuitive at hitt AI
https://hitt.ai/

... Launching soon
What is "zombie-bench" ? There is no info on the internet
That's not racism. I encourage you to research the term, you seem to be very confused.
This uses the LTE-M network, which is pretty cool. It doesn't do anything until you turn it on.
Nix is mostly deterministic due to lots of effort by the community but it’s hard to maintain full determinism in your own tests.
Correct, but over simplified. I'm looking for people's experiences based on gender, age and race, as I stated in the post. This doesn't make the post inappropriate or racist. It might make some people uncomfortable, but it isn't a racist post.
That next "civilian" was an Islamic extremist who took over because the other leaders of the revolution were too weak and foolish and were eliminated by the Islamic extremists.

At that moment a military takeover would have resulted in a smooth transition of power to the next actual civilian government.

Things are not always simple and straightforward.
Using location and/or background audio are ways of keeping an app running in the background and not being killed by iOS.

Obviously this is a bad thing for any app to abuse but in this context it’s up the user to write in ‘cat /dev/location > /dev/null &’ into the shell or a shell script.
It might be like that - but there are other options as well.

There are companies that make stereo lenses, capturing two images side-by-side on a single sensor, for people who want to take 3D photos on their interchangeable-lens cameras. And there are "anamorphic" lenses that squeeze things horizontally but not vertically - in digital terms, producing non-square pixels. Very popular in films in the 70s and 80s. And when it comes to corrective glasses, bifocal and varifocal/progressive lenses are another common type of lens providing variable optical properties.

Self-driving cars need to deal with both "stopped at a crosswalk, are there pedestrians?" (which needs a wide view) and "driving at 70mph, stopping distance about 300 feet, what's that thing 300 feet away?" (which needs a zoomed in view)

If you look at https://www.pexels.com/photo/city-street-in-fisheye-16209078... for example - it's wide (which is good) but the details at 300 feet ahead aren't winning any prizes. Far more pixels are wasted on useless sky than are used on the road ahead.
never had to do that in 25 years of software dev
The kamayocs spread the knowledge orally from master to protege
I wouldn't want generative ML to infest my car's safety features tbh.

Fortunately you are wrong.
https://www.bench.co/
Because to (imo) Israel's great shame, its current finance minister is a right-wing extremist with very little support among the electorate, but unfortunately a very elevated position in the government because of Netanyahu's political necessities.

His view doesn't come close to representing the majority Israeli view; I'm fairly certain that in most surveys these days he gets literally 0 seats in the Israeli Knesset.
Sounds like the sort of bank that only allow closure to be requested via fax certain months.
Would you consider to support FSRS in Mochi?
currently doing something similar with python, I'd love to deepdive your code, would github work?
White males according to Bloomberg and others are disproportionately affected by the economic downturn. Thr majority of the American workforce is no longer white males (allegedly).
Given that this is the first time I’ve ever heard of either of those, I think the point stands.
>Good, a job that cannot support biological needs should not exist. It’s not a viable business.

And "biological needs" are an ever-increasing target, just beyond minimum wage. When minimum wage increases so does the target. Why? Because it's not about biological needs. It's about relative wealth dressed up as "basic needs".

I do think the US should have a minimum wage increase, but the discussion around it seems so disingenuous.
> some impalpable material

"impalpable" means you can't touch it. Like a low pressure gas? Neon lighting fits this. "brightly glowing, electrified glass tubes or bulbs that contain rarefied neon or other gases"

And "It was discovered in 1898"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_lighting
Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth
I don't think that's an accurate summary of his book, no. (Not given the usual meaning of the phrase, at least.)
https://archive.md/jqMKX
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523061 "bench accounting services shutting down". 3 days ago, 300 comments
From my reading I understand that the Aztecs and Inca people never met, how did this trade network span the continent?
People have ridden fixed in SF for decades. I have as well. You learn to prefer certain routes, and when the hill is steep, you just deal with the low cadence.
Thank you for the explanation. Great thinking and good to have your opinions here on HN!
The problem is in my opinion not the hydraulic analogy itself, but the fact that it is usually presented as a model.

It has its place, but it should come with a big disclaimer at the front that it is not a model where we assume it is incomplete and which does not explain everything but an analogy that is fundamentally wrong in everything and only meant to help us understand the one particular aspect of the real thing.
I don't see how this is a self-contradictory position. Women who've decided to call themselves men are in fact still women.
Dammit, the video doesn’t explain why we have 4 twisted pairs in our cables instead of just 2! One for Rx, one for Tx, but then why did they keep the other two? Surely they didn’t have 4 dead wires just because of legacy? So why the additional pairs, what were they used for?
The people who work at companies are usually not devoid of morality. Even the people who own the companies, the people on the board, the people who are the executives, are not usually devoid of morality. But insofar as the company is an organization of people rather than a person itself, it is devoid of morality. Organizations of people are not people, they are meta-organisms that have different ways of "thinking" and operating than the individual humans they are comprised of. Don't anthropomorphize these things, they aren't capable of morality in the same way that a bear isn't. If ever it behaves in a way that seems moral, that's not because it actually is.

The more people who are involved in the decision making apparatus of an organization, not just at the top but throughout the entire net, the less human you know it is. If the entire company consists of a single person, it is a person and not an organization. But if a company consists merely of one owner/operator with one employee below them that tells the other things and is told things, the product of those two becomes less than human and may make decisions that neither of the two humans would approve of if they had the complete picture of what was going on. The larger the organization grows, the worse this problem becomes.

This isn't only true of companies, but any group of people. Groups of people are not themselves people.
In 2014 Ukraine overthrew their (democratically elected) pro-Russian president with extensive support from the US, leading numerous regions that are heavily ethnic Russian, including Crimea, to declare their independence. Western efforts to try to show the Crimean referendum was faked ended up doing the exact opposite [1] - and confirming that it was indeed reflective of the will of the overwhelming majority of people.

In 2019 Ukraine added joining NATO as a goal to their constitution, and the US was obviously rapidly moving in that direction with them. It was widely predicted that doing this would lead to war, and well here we are!

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/03/20/one-year-a...
Why are more people not saying this? At the end of the day malware is only useful if it can send information out. So its by nature, totally detectable.
Like Americans and Canadians are not indigenous people of Northern America and Australians are not indigenous people of Australia, they are not. Arabs in Palestine are descendants of colonizers and settlers enabled by the colonial powers.
Also (as you know), twisted-pair Ethernet with a hub (let alone that STARNET daisy-chain thingy!) just isn't that different from coax Ethernet. Electrically it's largely shared-medium, half-duplex bus Ethernet wearing a mechanical hub-and-spoke disguise, and the hub is by definition just a multiport repeater. It's only when the hub is replaced by a multiport switch that shared-medium Ethernet is decisively left behind.

Which brings me to one thing that puzzled me about the video. In the part starting from 10:37 https://youtu.be/f8PP5IHsL8Y?t=637 it describes STARLAN as specifying two pairs of wires, one for transmit and one for receive. But naturally you can't really have full duplex without a switch at the other end of the wire; and yet the STARLINK "Network Extension Unit" is described as a hub (and indeed it seems that the first Ethernet switches/multiport bridges didn't ship until 1989-1990). So when at 12:10 https://youtu.be/f8PP5IHsL8Y?t=730 the video seems to suggest that STARLINK being half-duplex was a step back from the original plan, I don't see how that can be the case: I assume that first-generation STARLINK was never intended to provide full duplex, and the two pairs of wires were just reserved for future upgrades. That seems compatible with what Richard Bennett says from 12:29 . That's still interesting, though, because it suggests that the STARLINK contributors must have had switches in mind back in 1983.
Zoho Is Cheating People
Today I got to know that the data export, backup and import options provided by Zoho on various zoho products is total bummer.

They are totally hideous in masking the detail that

- Any data exported from any zoho product cannot be imported back into the same product (CRM is an exception, but that too throws a lot of mapping errors!)

For example, I wanted to clone the data from Zoho projects and Zoho Books into another Zoho Projects and Books in a totally new paid account and I got to know that they don't support importing of Zoho exported data. I'm totally perplexed and annoyed and feeling let down from such a useless company.

What is the use of having a data export, import and backup option if they cannot support their own products?

Or are they very sure that once a customer moves away from their platform they are not going to comeback again into their ecosystem!

It must be it!

Support chat was enlightening to know that the options do not exist!

My ask is very simple.

If that is the case (let it be and I want to end my relationship with it asap), I need the information published across all data export/import/backup or data administration modules in bold letters and across all Zoho product documentation that any data exported from any Zoho product cannot be used to restore or imported back into the Zoho product. That's all! Anyone from Zoho who could get this across? I'm sure that based on the conversation, they don't give a damn!

(And voices head over the wind states that their internal practices are also very shady and no one knows what they are doing and don't give a damn about customer data or anything sensitive!)

Be very cautious with the company folks!
Same although for me it's just stress - I manage the keyboard position with my pink along that edge, but the G keys mean I have to hover it instead. The slight posture change got pretty painful pretty quickly.
'unimaginable sums of money’ considered harmful.
>russia had no such qualms.

Neither does the Ukraine or the US.
> That's how news websites are supposed to look like.

No, news websites don't have to be this sterile.

I think NYT is a prime example of how to merge classic text-based articles with multimedia content in a way that's beneficial to the consumer.
Migrated from Brave, didn't like it in the end, never now what's the deal wih their crypto token, seemed a nuisance.
The obsession with technical things is a reflection of how divorced we have become with the natural world. As we need to attend less and less to basic needs, the mind turns inwards, and not always for the better.